Carter Threatens New Sequestration Impacts, Targeting Modernization Accounts By Half

By Tony Bertuca / March 3, 2015 at 5:28 PM
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter issued new warnings Tuesday on the potential impacts of sequestration, notably that half of the cuts would come from the Pentagon's modernization accounts for weapons procurement and development in fiscal year 2016. Carter, in his written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee , also provided new details on specific programs that would be stalled by sequestration, namely the Aerospace Innovation Initiative, the Next Generation Adaptive Engine, the Ground-Based Interceptor missile defense kill vehicle redesign, and...

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